Thomas Jefferson Quotes

War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Equal rights for all special privileges for none.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.